MY COUNTRY FACTS


OFFICIAL COUNTRY NAME: Romania
Location: Is located in Europe (46 00 N, 25 00 E)
YEAR THAT THE COUNTRY JOINED THE UN: 1955

PEOPLE

The people in Romania are called Romanian.
The official language is romanian but there are also people who talk German, Hungarian and Turkish.
Romania is a secular state but most of the population belong to the orthodox church (87%). There are some important religions like the Roman Catholicism (4.7%), Protestantism (3.7%), Pentecostal congregations (1.5%) and the Roman-Greek-Catholic Church (0.9%); Islam and Judaism, but this two have less followers.


FLAG

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  • The three colours of the flag are blue , yellow ande red.

The shield:
  • The golden eagle- symbolyzed the central element ofthe founding dynasty Basarabias
  • The shield- symbolyzed the sky
  • A heraldic blazon- divided into fields presents the symbols of the historical Romanian privinces ( Tara Romanesque, Moldova, Transylvania and adjacent territories of the Black Sea.)



GOVERNMENT




POPULATION

Romania has 19.877.900 inhabitants this year.
There are 86.56 sq/km (last measured in 2014)



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NATURAL GROWTH (%)



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In Romania, there are some groups of refugees that arrived at ACNUR organisations, with the pourpose to have a better life than in Iraqui fields. Like , last Wednesday agroup of 59 refugees came to the western part of Romania.

MIGRATIONS

In2013, there were198,839 inmigrants living in Romania. They come from Moldova , Turkey, China also from Africa. Because they want a work to maintin their family.
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Emigrants reached 97.000 (1990), romanians went to european countries , the USA or Canada to work.
ACNUR is an organisations in charge of migrations or other needs. They give refges to them and the people of ACNUR help them to have a better life.
Romania is an emigration country. The main causes are political and economical issues.
After 1990, people started to leave for other countries in orderto have an unstable social and economic enviroment and also for working.
Starting with the 21stcentury, more studentd decided to being their studies abroad because of better chances to find a job and a higher quality of life.
So they go to other countries for studying and have more chances for the future also for earning money working.

GEOGRAPHY


Romania is in Europe.
Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova , Serbia and Ukraine border Romania.
It haves a natural landscape in which the 36% are plains, the 33% are hills and the 31% are mountains.
The worst thing of Romania is that most of the plains have trash on it and also the factories and cars pollute.
Romania´s climate is temperate-continental , cold winters with frequent snow nd sunny summers.

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ECONOMY

The most common sector in Romania is the tertiary sector.
  • The primary sector -> 12.1%
  • The secondary sector ->35.7%
  • The tertiary sector ->52.2%
The unemployment rate of Romania is the 6.8%
Romania has oil and gas reserves. It imports oil and gas from Russia. They use nuclear power as an alternative to electricity generation. It haves two nuclear reactors that produce the 18-20% of the country´s electricity.

DOMESTIC POLICY


The government of Romania offers public health campaigns.
In the article 34 of the Constitution of Romania specifies that the state is bound to guarantee the sheltering of healtcare.
In the article 32 of the Constitution of Romania is guaranteed the access to free education.
Education is regulated and enforced by the Minister of Eduation and Research, the Minister is cslled Ioan Mang.
The total tax rate is : 42.9%
Labor tax and contributions: 31.5%
Other taxes payed by buissnes: 1.1%
Profit tax: 10.3%
39.6% of Debts.
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FOREIGN POLICY

In 2012 Romanian constitutional crisis between the resident and the Prime Minister was a dispute arose between the two regarding the rpresentation to the European council.
The dispute generated in civil disobedience and conflicting views between political parties.
The military expenditure in defense program is :
2011-2015 -> 1.3